For us old-timers, Hotwheels wasn’t the only car toy in town. Matchbox Cars and Micro Machines were there as well to keep us spending our parents’ hard-earned money. Well, this new video from British Pathé will help explain at least a little about how the...

[View the full flier here] Lawrence Tech University will be hosting its annual “Main Event” showcase and awards show on January 8, 2017, just prior to the kickoff of NAIAS. It’s a school I had the privilege of teaching at, being an Adjunct Professor...

The annual NAIAS Designer’s Night, hosted by Camilo Pardo, has just been announced. The event brings together Designers and automotive influencers who are in town for NAIAS (the Detroit auto show) to meet, chat, and reminisce about design school. This year the...

Our favorite annual sketch battle is back for another year! Middlecott is bringing its Sketch Battle Experiment back on January 10, 2016. Potential contestants are asked to email brook@middlecott.com for entry details. See you there!

How big of a deal is the new Jaguar F-Pace SUV? According to Design Chief Ian Callum, it’s THE BIGGEST. In a new interview with Irish Times, Callum discusses why he believes the vehicle hits on all of the marks of a Jaguar: We started shaping the roof line, and...

We’re fans of the Cars movie series for OBVIOUS reasons. While we knew a new installment was on the horizon, we didn’t know just how soon. Well guess what? NOW WE DO. Disney & Pixar have just released the first teaser for Cars 3, coming to theaters...

With everything going digital, we’re perhaps losing the ability to sketch on paper and have fun. That’s why it’s good to go back and continue practicing drawing on the “old medium” for sanity’s sake. Thankfully, Sangwon Seok, one of...

Tim Lawrence, a fellow designer and friend of the site, is putting out a terrific car design coloring book for kids. Fireball Tim’s “Custom Car Coloring Book” looks like it could be a terrific little gift for the holiday season for the budding car...

We have a lot of friends that send us sketches on Twitter and Facebook, so we’d like to highlight them as often as we can. This week Ian Bass answered the call, sending over some sweet pencil sketches via Twitter. Have a look at Ian’s work below, and feel...

When it first announced the Surface Studio, Microsoft raised the collective eyebrows of everyone in my Design office. The giant touch-screen all-in-one drawing tablet device looks beautiful, for one. It has the ability to pivot and adjust for those of us who like to...